Front crawl: Hips sink when I breathe, causing bad things
Former Member
My front crawl (according to my instructor) is GREAT.
My feet stay at the surface. My hands barely splash. I do an "S" pull. I roll.
But when I go to breathe, the following happens:
1. my hips start to sink
2. ... causing me to slow down
3. ... causing my head to sink
4. ... causing me to crane my neck
5. ... causing me to try to "grab" the water in front of me
6. ... causing me to nearly drown.
Now we've tried a number of different drills and I've come to realize that my hips sink on almost ANY kind of rotation from front to back.
If I do the TI skating drill, or even just a simple switch from front crawl to back crawl, or vice versa, my hips sink.
Should I just keep plugging away at it, or is there some particular thing I should do? Kick harder when I rotate to breathe?
without seeing it, i can think of two things that could be causing this.
1 - kick. its not necessarily that your kick isn't strong enough. it sounds like you're keeping with your kick as you try to breathe, which is good. but i am thinking somewhere as you turn your head, your kick has a pause/hitch, and down go the hips.
2 - head. i'm thinking you may be actually lifting your head toward your shoulder. when breathing, your head should still be straight and your spine should be in line from top of head to tailbone. bear in mind that your head is a rudder for the rest of your body, and when it starts moving around, thats when your body position gets all out of whack.
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without seeing it, i can think of two things that could be causing this.
1 - kick. its not necessarily that your kick isn't strong enough. it sounds like you're keeping with your kick as you try to breathe, which is good. but i am thinking somewhere as you turn your head, your kick has a pause/hitch, and down go the hips.
2 - head. i'm thinking you may be actually lifting your head toward your shoulder. when breathing, your head should still be straight and your spine should be in line from top of head to tailbone. bear in mind that your head is a rudder for the rest of your body, and when it starts moving around, thats when your body position gets all out of whack.
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